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The County of Werdenfels (German: Grafschaft Werdenfels) in the present-day Werdenfelser Land in South Germany was a county that enjoyed imperial immediacy that belonged to the Bishopric of Freising from the late 13th century until the secularisation of the Bishopric in 1803.
In 1418 the family inherited Wildenburg Castle near Friesenhagen, a Lordship with Imperial immediacy, from the Lords of Wildenburg.
The town began in 1142 with the settlement of the first Cistercian monastery in Bohemia, Sedlec Monastery, brought from the Imperial immediate Cistercian Waldsassen Abbey.
Emperor Ferdinand III raised the small Lordship to the free immediate County of Holzappel as a reward for the services Melander had performed while in the imperial army.
In 1294, the bishop was raised to the status of prince-bishop and thus became an Estate of the Empire enjoying imperial immediacy.
The Reichsadler was widely used by Imperial cities such as Lübeck, Besançon or Cheb to underline their immediacy.
It however lost its immediate status in 1414, when it was mediatised by Elector Palatine Louis III of Wittelsbach.